Some scientists contend that hygiene is a good reason to embrace the high five. Either that, or I'll try to salvage the situation by grabbing your hand and squeezing it, like some sort of awkward aerial hand-hug. Rather than coming up for the slap, my own hand will burrow even deeper into my pocket. But to your point, if we treat people of color as if they are limited in a similar way to a girl with no arms, we've clearly gone very wrong somewhere along the line.Even cats are expected to slap paws these days.īut raise your hand to me like a cop stopping traffic and you're on your own. There are arguments to be made on both sides of this, and like I said the reason it's hard is that it's all very nuanced. It's gotta be case by case, but in general when we weigh it all together I think it's better to default to treating everyone the same rather than assume that the differences between the average lived experiences of people of certain social categories means that it's better for us to assume that we should treat them differently. Overall, I think colorblindess (with regards to race) gets more correct than it does wrong, but of course there's by far not a one size fits all rule to go by. This is actually the first time I've seen it on reddit. This is a discussion that I had worried I wouldn't see in my lifetime. You know, I'm just REALLY glad to see this comment thread, flawed though our ability to articulate it is (we're human). The Psych Program and my open-minded friends did a really good job in helping me realize why the fuck that would not be a good idea. Wanna know the real kicker? I was (and still am) planning to be a psycholigist despite having all those views.
Anthropology electives also helped a lot with expanding my horizons as I got to learn about various cultures. My outlook started to change a lot more after I left home and went to college and met all sorts of people from all walks of life. God if my current friends ever found my old Youtube comments.īasic outcome of a typical male teen growing up in a sheltered community for most of his life. Then I just became a shitty teenager, like the type you see post all sorts of really fucked up political and moral views on internet forums with the unbridled power of anonymity that the internet gives you. You know those really awful middle schoolers? Yea that was me. I was also stuck in my Terrible-Twos phase until I was like 13. Seriously, it's hard for me to watch stuff like PublicFreakout vids or r/niceguys stuff without having a cringe flashback cause I've done or said that stuff! If Dating Apps like Tinder and Bumble were as popular back when I was a teen, I prob would have shown up on that sub more than once or twice. This is just SOME the stuff I did in my teens. Used to believe ALL relgion was just stupid and their followers were ignorant fools (literally used those words once FYI) (we became close friends eventually once I started to wise up tho) Even argued with the only black guy in my dorm hall in the first few weeks of college about it. Even after it became a thing I was like "yea that makes sense". Also a "All Lives Matter" supporter waaaay before that was even a thing.
God I was cringing for a week straight when I found out about them and their familiar sounding views. Basically a Men's Right Activist before it gained as much fame as it does now since internet was still new at the time. Avid speaker of "ok but not ALL guys are like that!" Whenever topics about sexual and emotional abuse would come up (even if it had nothing to add to the convo). I think I actually got mad too so method acting to the extreme Even got all up in one dude's face and "stormed out". During a med-school seminar I took, I took my role as a "reporter in the medical role" too seriously and thought I was being a good team player by acting as scummy and annoying as possible (exagerating details told by "med staff", pestering them while they were trying to make progress, etc.). Used to think being gay was purely a choice and argued with a lot of people about it. Like I said, constantly bombarded by cringe flashbacks of really close-minded opinions and values I actually shared or acted out in public.
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